I try to make sure I’m aware of things when I’m working out in the garden. When I am I often see some of the most beautiful things. I’m particularly fond of seeing spiderwebs around the gardens, quite beautiful and beneficial!

It is a hard thing to get over, but once you do you enjoy seeing them in the gardens. We had a near infestation of big wolf spiders when we first moved in here, along with a slug & earwig infestation. Once we went organic and quit using chemicals & pesticides things started to balance out. I see spiders here and there, but I see greater variety of insects and birds now. I know the birds are eating the spiders as are the toads and other beneficial creatures around. It’s an amazing transformation to watch, although tough in the beginning when slugs devour things and there are spiders everywhere.

Just yesterday we killed 4 black widows in our yard :( they were huge and they made home in our kids dome climber. I am not a huge spider fan but they do serve a purpose. The garden spiders stay alive and do their thing. The black widow on the other hand….
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I can`t resist the sight of moss growing on rocks, I just have to touch. Maybe its the contrast between the hardness of the rock and moss` velvety softness but I always pause to run my hand over it. I once found moss near a peak ( 2800 meters) that had minute blue star-shaped flowers, It was absolutetly beautiful.

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This is a daily journal of my efforts to cultivate a more simple life, through local eating, gardening and so many other things. We used to live in a small suburban neighborhood Ohio but moved to 153 acres in Liberty, Maine in 2012.